December 7th, 2011.
Germán
Sometimes you find yourself dealing with a fact table consisting of an event with an effective start date and an effective end date. Some typical examples of these cases are employee absences (an absence has a start date and end date), salaries (a salary has a period when it was effective) or item in a warehouse (date in and date out of the item).
In these situations, the following reporting need can arise: “how many employees were on leave in Aug 15th?”, “what was the salary of employee X last month?”, “how many units of item IT1 were there in warehouse W2 in Nov 30th?”.
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November 28th, 2011.
Sergi
Some Oracle Application like BI Publisher 10g uses OC4J, which is an Oracle Application Server which enables J2EE applications to run. These set of containers, API and services have to be started manually at system start up and after system downtime.
It is annoying for system administrators to have manual task to take care of. So, if we are in a Windows environment, these tasks can be avoided if they are defined as an automatic start-up process within the MS Windows Service.
Installing OC4J as a MS Windows Services we will solve that inconvenience we will take a step further in automation wise and we will decrease the services downtimes.
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November 28th, 2011.
Sabrina
United Carton Industries was founded in 1990 and with a manufacturing capacity of 265,000 metric tons is the leading supplier of corrugated packaging in the Middle East.
Efficiency is a necessity in such a demanding manufacturing environment. In order to manage and control their day-to-day functions and thus allow effective decision making, UCIC realized the importance of implementing a Business Intelligence Solution and aware of their unbeaten track record contacted ClearPeaks.
November 25th, 2011.
Sabrina
ClearPeaks BI Consultant, held an OBI EE 11g Advanced training workshop in South Africa last week. This training was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about designing, developing and optimizing business intelligence solutions with the new OBI EE 11g software platform.
The course gave the attendees the opportunity to learn about the theory of the technical value and new features of 11g as well as having the opportunity to have hands-on experience with the software through labs.
Feedback from the OBI EE 11g Advanced Partner Training in South Africa:
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November 25th, 2011.
Sabrina
ClearPeaks BI Consultant, held an OBI EE 11g Advanced training workshop in Nigeria last week. This training was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about designing, developing and optimizing business intelligence solutions with the new OBI EE 11g software platform.
Attendees of the course included, senior technical consultants, senior software analysts, application developers and senior customer service engineers. The course gave the attendees the opportunity to learn about the theory of the technical value and new features of 11g as well as having the opportunity to have hands-on experience with the software through labs.
Feedback from the OBI EE 11g Advanced Partner Training in Nigeria:

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